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When the shiain, she went utterly still A few moments later, her hand lay on the muscular back of aat hi her body so that they lay face-to-face, her hand now on his shoulder "You’re gorgeous, and you know that"

For once, he didn’t smile "Is it too ive that iot a ss low and deep in her "So but find the reality harder to accept"

"Some women?" A prickly flare of jealousy

His smile widened "Not that I would know"

She felt her lips twitch "Of course not, Mr Innocent"

"Hey, you’re the one who led ht and narrow" He ran his hand down to her botto I do ’the licking thing’ oneto fight fire with fire, she said,

"You never gave s yesterday"

Sensual ain"

"Cat" Wrapping her arainst his It felt natural, easy He made a sound of contentment and shifted until she was under him, skin-to-skin contact all over It was sexual, but it was also so because it felt good

"How long does the affection last?" she asked half seriously Making love with hily beautiful, but this kind of si beyond pleasure and into a kind of trust that left her breathless

Zach kissed her cheek, her jaw, her chin "Always Not touching is abnormal for us"

She remembered the easy affection she’d witnessed at the picnic "I’ers"

"No"

"That’s good," she said, sing an unexpected pulse of hurt at the idea of being outside the circle of his pack If she’d been his ht at once,locked into a relationship that offered no escapeno matter if the love died "I’m not easy with people I don’t knoell," she said to cover the sudden burst of fear

"You’re in charge of skin privileges, baby" He traced circles on her shoulder "The pack will pick up the cues"

"’Skin privileges’?"

"The right to touch" He kissed the corner of her h of this play "I guess you have total skin privileges then"

A sound of sh, he was so shameless about it And that hen she knew

She was too hter

She’d love only once And she’d love forever

Zach was it

For him, she’d break every rule, allow him into her home, into her very soul For him, she’d jump into the abyss and worry about the bruises later

Because sometimes, there were no choices

"Hey" His voice was a husky lad that he wasn’t Psy, that he couldn’t read her mind "Love me, Zach"

"Always"

But she knew he hadn’t understood what she’d asked, hadn’t promised what she needed It didn’t matter He was hers, if only for now, and she would treasure every one

Stroke of Enticement Chapter 10

A MONTH AFTER he’d first met Annie, Zach sat on one of the car-sized boulders scattered around Yose He’d spent every night since the day of the picnic with her She was fire in his arbut she continued to withhold a part of herself

Most men wouldn’t have noticed

But he wasn’t most men Every time she waved off his offer to help her in some way, every time she pulled her independence around her like a shield, he noticed It wounded the cat, confused the man "Mercy, I can hear you" A tall redhead jumped down from a branch a few feet in front of hi enough noise for a herd of elephants" He threw the sentinel a spare bottle of water